About the Authors

Marc-Jan Gubbels

Affiliations Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases and Department of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America , Department of Biology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States of America

Margaret Lehmann

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Molecular Biology, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America

Mani Muthalagi

Affiliation Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases and Department of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Maria E Jerome

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Molecular Biology, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America

Carrie F Brooks

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Molecular Biology, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America

Tomasz Szatanek

Affiliation Department of Biology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jayme Flynn

Affiliation Department of Biology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ben Parrot

Affiliation Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases and Department of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Josh Radke

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Molecular Biology, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America

Boris Striepen

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: striepen@cb.uga.edu (BS); uvsmw@montana.edu (MWW)

Affiliation Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases and Department of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Michael W White

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: striepen@cb.uga.edu (BS); uvsmw@montana.edu (MWW)

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Molecular Biology, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

MJG, BS, and MWW conceived and designed the experiments. MJG, ML, MM, MEJ, CFB, TS, JF, BP, JR, performed the experiments. MJG, BS, and MWW analyzed the data. MJG, BS, and MWW wrote the paper.